SpaceCamp

Space Camp is a 1986 movie based on a book by Patrick Bailey and Larry B. Williams and inspired by the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. The film stars Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson and Tate Donovan. Its screenplay was written by W. W. Wicket and Casey T. Mitchell.

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The movie's release was untimely, coming about the same time as the Challenger accident of January, 1986.

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The movie centers around four teenagers and a 12-year-old boy named Max who have gone to space camp for three weeks during summer to learn about the NASA space program and mimic astronaut training. There they meet Andie, a camp instructor and NASA astronaut who is frustrated that she has not yet been assigned to a space shuttle mission.

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Patrick Bailey: Patrick Bailey (born November 19, 1985 in ) is an American football linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He was signed by the Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He graduated in 2004 from Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio, Texas and played college f...